Automatically Force Closing of Open Share Sessions?

[TheMightyTen]

Having a bad day and I've got a pounding headache

At work I need to automatically and at a specified time during the night close all open shared sessions on one of our Windows 2000 Server file servers. We've told all the monkeys in the labs they have to log out at the end of the day but they're to thick listen

Because some people aren't logging out and keeping shared files locked one of our backups is failing.

Is it possible to do an unattended scheduled closing of the sessions before the backup kicks in. I'm sure I used to do something similar but for the life of me can't remember how

Cheers

 

[TheMightyTen]

Yep just remembered about 5 minutes ago, that was what I used to do.

I know the risks for data corruption but they have been warned over and over again. Lets see how long it takes them to start remembering to log out after a few docs are corrupted!

!Damn this head and the pointless drones I have to work with

 

[TheMightyTen]

or set the user account "logon hours" to expire @ 8:00pm. ?


it's possible to detect if any apps are running and remotely shutdown the PC instead, that gives them a few minutes to cancel the shutdown if they are still actually using the PC.


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Unfortunately as a Health Protection Agency Lab we are guesting on a Host Hospital Trust Network and their policy is against the automatic logout and shutdown of PCs so I'm stumped on that one (It was my first idea )

 

[TheMightyTen]

We are using Veritas, but it won't work, evan had their technical support on the case and still no joy. We've been banging our heads against a brick wall with this for over a month. In a couple of months the whole thing is being migrated into a SAN so I can wash my hands of it but until then I need the backups to work so I've decided to use a sledgehammer to break a walnut.

 

[TheMightyTen]

really ?
I kinda thought a lot of places wanted their PC's locked out as soon as the user turned their head.

tbh, I haven't found shutdown tools that reliable so far, I'm still tweaking mine.

Thet can't risk shutting down PC's in Medically Critical areas and they are to lazy to get of their overpaid arses to sort out the subnets of the domain properly

 

[TheMightyTen]

I've got a script that remotely selectively kills all/some of the running applications on a PC, I use it when I want certain people out of one of the servers.

that would let you backup the server OK

any use ?

That would me of great use, If it's emailable my email is in my Trust! Thanks for the offer